04/12/08 - Greenwich Spotlight: Greenwich School District's Facilities Director Anthony "Tony Two Face" Byrne And The Ham Ave School Coverup (Updated)

Is Tony "Two Face" Byrne A Hippo - Crite

Tony "Two Face" Byrne had no public comments or complaints when the Greenwich Public Schools removed contaminated ceiling tiles over one year ago.

Please see:

03/09/08 - Town Employees: Sternberg's Crew Knew - Mold Covered Tiles Replaced Over One Year Ago.

Tony "Two Face" Byrne had no public complaints about having the teamsters filling up dumpsters with contaminated construction debri as Hamilton Avenue School parents were preparing to protest in front of the school administration building.

Please see:

03/12/08 - Why Was It Ok To Remove Dumpsters Of Contaminated Plywood, But Not OK To Remove School Desks And Chairs?

And:

03/05/08 - The Unionized (Teamstewrs) School District Custodial Staff Are Suggesting That There Might Be A School District Coverup At Ham Ave School.

Tony "Two Face" Byrne had no public complaints about letting Greenwich School Architect John Brice to get behind the walls and examine what he thought might be left of the vapor barrier.

Please see:

03/17/08 - "It's not just one classroom, it's the whole school," Tom Hardman of the Modular Building Institute said, "It's a bad situation all around.

Tony "Two Face" Byrne had no public complaints about Greenwich School District hygienist Charles Schwarts testing where ever he wanted.

Please see:

03/14/08 - Sternberg Received A Report On Air Quality Of The Modular Classrooms That Showed A Higher Level Of Mold Spores Than Previosly Released

But...

Tony "Two Face" Byrne really started complaining when the supposedly "independent" Navigant Consulting was hired by the Greenwich Public School System/

Please see:

04/03/08 - Independent? - Word Is That Fairfield Based Architect John Brice Recommended Navigant Consulting, formerly known as The Metzler Group

Just look at the fear uncertainty and doubt that Greenwich Schools Facilities Director, Tony "Two Face" Byrne is spreading as he complains about Navigant Consulting taking a look at the contaminated Hamilton Avenue School Modular Classrooms....

Anthony Byrne, the district's facilities director, warned the costs may escalate because as the firm investigates the building, their work may help spread the mold spores inside the classrooms. He said once that happens, the district will have a harder time cleaning mold spores from the classrooms if it ever decides to reuse the modular building.

But things only got worse when the Hamilton Avenue School parents wanted to independently test to see what had happened to their children.

The word around Greenwich is that Tony "Two Face" Byrne has been working over time putting up road blocks designed to scuttle the agreed upon tests.

Please see:

Parents' expert to run mold tests

04/06/2008 - Greenwich Time

Reversing a decision that earned them much criticism, school officials have agreed to allow a parent-hired expert to run environmental tests on the Hamilton Avenue School modular buildings.

The Board of Education, which has hired its own environmental hygienist, recently told Hamilton Avenue School parents that their own expert would be allowed to run tests in the modular building. But their hygienist will be restricted to certain areas, a condition that does not sit well with some parents.

"If they are going to limit our tester to places that we need to have tested, we have a concern with that," said Laura DiBella, a Hamilton Avenue School parent who had lobbied for an independently hired expert to perform the tests. "Our tester should be allowed to test where their tester tested."

Leslie Moriarty, a Board of Education member, said that disturbing mold-infested areas, such as in the roof eaves or inside the walls, in order to perform tests could help to spread the mold. Officials don't want the mold spores to spread to other parts of the modular building because they want to leave open the possibility of remediating the situation and reusing the structure.

"The concern is that when you open the wall and disturb the space, it comes into the building," Moriarty said. "An option is to reuse the building and so we don't want to make that job more difficult."

Wow.

Let's all stand up and applaud the almost amazing and semi-incredible Tony "Two Face" Byrne for giving the Greenwich Board Of Education a way to use smoke and mirror tactics to cover up school administration screw ups and make the Hamilton Avenue Parents look like a bunch of unreasonably hysterical banshees.

The real sad part of the story is that the fourth estate of Greenwich doesn't have the Journalistic balls to ask...

"Why was it OK for school employees, architects, engineers and enviromental tesers to have a peek behind the walls at the Hamilton Avenue School, but it is NOT OK for the parents of the affected children to get a look see?"

Please See:

Quote #1:

"We think the whole building is loaded with mold," Laura DiBella said

Quote#2:

"I really do think we tried really hard to reach an agreement and we've reached an impasse that we're not going to get past," said Leslie "I Am Full Of Crap" Moriarty, a Board of Education member who has been negotiating with parents.

Headline:

Mold dispute reaches impasse

Reporter:

Hoa Nguyen
Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

Story:

School officials are at an impasse with a group of Hamilton Avenue School parents who want their environmental expert to run a new battery of tests on the mold-infested modular building.

Both sides have been deep in negotiation about how this additional round of testing will be carried out, but talks broke down earlier this week....

...A group of parents were expected to meet last night to discuss their options, which for the moment look grim because the negotiation has been called off, said Laura DiBella, a Hamilton Avenue parent. DiBella lobbied to have a parent-hired expert run a new round of tests because they fear the mold contamination may be worse than what the Board of Education has told parents...

...Tensions have been running high since late Feburary when the modular was evacuated because of mold. Although the town and an environmental expert hired by the Board of Education said tests show the mold was not hazardous to human health, a group of parents want to run their own tests on the modular. After an emotional plea from parents, education officials relented, but....

...DiBella said parents are willing to pay for the testing but that the remediation costs may be unreasonable.

"You're talking about the poorest parents in the district," she said.

School officials may have to remediate the entire modular building or possibly demolish it anyway, DiBella said.

Please see:

04/06/08 - "My son was in the hardest hit classroom," Laura DiBella said. "I want to find out what they found in there."

It is time for Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg, Leslie "I Am Full Of Crap" Moriarty and Tony "Two Face Byrne To Let The Parents Independently Test The Contaminated Hamilton Avenue Modular Classrooms.

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